LibreCAD, free and open-source 2D-CAD application finally released version 2.0.0. At the moment, there’s no official announcement in its website. But the download links for Windows and Mac OS X and Ubuntu PPA are ready.
According to the official blog, LibreCAD 2.0.0 will has below features:
better spline and Bezier curve support;
complete conic section support after adding of hyperbola and parabola entities;
draw a circle/ellipse tangential to two selected circles/ellipses.
Install LibreCAD 2.0.0:
This release has been made into Ubuntu 14.04’s universe repository, so Trusty user can easily install it from Ubuntu Software Center.
For Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, (Ubuntu 12.04 build are failed) run commands below one by one in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) to install from PPA:
Whisker Menu, the default application launcher of Linux Mint Xfce Desktop now is at version 1.3.0. According to the changelog, now you can drag app launchers from Whisker Menu to Panel or Desktop.
Whisker Menu 1.3 ChangeLog:
Fix menu artifacts when switching categories
Fix undefined behavior in slots
Add command to launch menu editor
Add command to switch users
Add hiding commands
Add browsing for commands
Add hiding category and launcher icons
Add loading default settings from a file
Add search actions
Add running arbitrary programs in PATH
Add dragging launchers to panel or desktop
Add support for custom menu files
Defer loading applications until window is shown
Merge configuration dialog tabs
Rearrange source files to match standard layout of Xfce plugins
Click “Mark Executable” button if you get below window. The desktop icon will work properly next time you open it.
Install Whisker Menu:
If you’re on Xfce Desktop with Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13/14/15/16 and their derivatives. Whisker Menu can be easily installed from PPA.
Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
The latest stable release of GnuCash, a personal and small-business financial-accounting software now is at version 2.6.x, announced on 29th Dec 2013.
What’s New in GnuCash 2.6:
New Features:
Preferences have been migrated from GConf to GSettings. This is a simpler and more robust backend which writes to the OS’s native prefs — defaults on OS X and the Registry on MSWindows — and allows us to remove several troublesome dependencies including GConf, ORBit, and DBus. The change includes a migration script that will run at Gnucash startup.
New date handling which allows GnuCash to use dates after March 2038.
Guile-2 compatibility: GnuCash now requires either Guile-1.8 or Guile-2.0 Documents outside of GnuCash, images of receipts for example, can now be linked to transactions, with the facility of opening them in the default application for the document type.
Cutsom Reports can now be saved without renaming the report, and modifications can overwrite an existing report.
The import assistant now finishes much more quickly after assigning contra-accounts.
GnuCash now requires Gtk+-2.24.0 and GLib-2.26.0. Most of the dependencies on obsolete libraries have been removed; only libgnomecanvas remains. Unfortunately the effort to rewrite the register code to use GtkTreeModel wasn’t completed in time, so GnuCash is not on the cusp of converting to Gtk3.
The Business Module has been substantially revamped, including support for Credit Notes and import of customers and vendors from a CSV file.
The Num field in the register display is now optionally per-split, so for example a check number can be entered for the checking account split and an invoice number for the expense account split.
GnuCash can now open locked books read-only so that more than one user can view a file. GnuCash still does not support multiple simultaneous writers.
By agreement of all authors, GnuCash is now licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later rather than simply Version 2. This allows derivative works to be licensed under the GPL Version 3 if the author of such a work so desires.
Bug fixes since 2.5.10:
Asset account’s “total” value should use most recent transaction prices
libofx can supply broken UTF-8 for account id
GnuCash should sanitise UTF-8 before serialising files to avoid writing broken unparseable XML.
General Ledger – Can’t Enter Transaction Amounts
The Tip of the Day preference isn’t getting saved
New Book Tabs on Windows
Other Changes:
Don’t create a second account hierarchy page when cancelling the Hierarchy Assistant or when using Actions->New Account Hierarchy on an already open book.
Reset Warnings dialog: show translated warnings
The locale-names for Help and the Tutorial and Concepts Guide have been renamed to language-only so that, for example, someone using the Swiss-German locale will be shown help in German instead of English.
Download & Install GnuCash 2.6:
Source Code and Windows EXE file are available in sf download page.
For Ubuntu users, build GnuCash 2.6 from source or wait for Canonical updating the universe repository.
Foobnix is a light and functional music player with Foobar2000-Like user interface available for Linux and Windows. It supports all popular formats, flac, lossless, CUE, 5000+ radios from box, online music for free, Last.fm and Vkontakte and more.
Foobnix has below features:
Support for CUE (also wv, iso.wv) is the best under Linux (zavlab)
ClamTk, a GUI front-end for ClamAV Virus Scanner recently released version 5.02. This release brings a little UI improvements, bug fixes as well as translation updates. See the changelog:
Add gnome-icon-theme to requirements (mostly affects KDE-based systems like Kubuntu; it’s pretty standard with most distros)
Update statusbar after saving update preferences
Add missing icon in Nautilus context menu
Remove unused (notify-send and more) code from App.pm
Ensure FileChooserButton cannot be clicked with nothing (due to inability to reset)
Remove deprecated encoding pragma.
Updated language files: Bulgarian (bg), Czech (cs), Slovak (sk), Chinese (zh_CN), Irish (ga)
SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux program to record programs and games. It aims to be powerful and really simple to use. It’s ‘simple’ in the sense that it’s easier to use than ffmpeg/avconv or VLC, because it has a straightforward user interface.
This recorder has below features:
Graphical user interface (Qt-based).
Faster than VLC and ffmpeg/avconv.
Records the entire screen or part of it, or records OpenGL applications directly (similar to Fraps on Windows).
Synchronizes audio and video properly (a common issue with VLC and ffmpeg/avconv).
Reduces the video frame rate if your computer is too slow (rather than using up all your RAM like VLC does).
Fully multithreaded: small delays in any of the components will never block the other components, resulting is smoother video and better performance on computers with multiple processors.
Pause and resume recording at any time (either by clicking a button or by pressing a hotkey).
Shows statistics during recording (file size, bit rate, total recording time, actual frame rate, …).
Can show a preview during recording, so you don’t waste time recording something only to figure out afterwards that some setting was wrong.
Uses libav/ffmpeg libraries for encoding, so it supports many different codecs and file formats (adding more is trivial).
Sensible default settings: no need to change anything if you don’t want to.
Tooltips for almost everything: no need to read the documentation to find out what something does.
Install SimpleScreenRecorder Ubuntu:
The developer has created a PPA for Ubuntu and Linux Mint users. Currently supports Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Mint 13/14/15/16.
To install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
Lubuntu users now have a new configuration tool “Lubuntu-Tweaks“, which allows to do simple tweaks. Right now it only has options to enable Computer and Trash icon on Desktop, and allows to reset Openbox configuration.
Screenshots:
Install Lubuntu Tweak:
This little app is still in early stage. If you would like to install it, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
FreeFileSync a folder comparison and synchronization tool that provides highly optimized performance and usability without needless user interface complexity.
Currently support Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 and Linux Mint. Go to the launchpad page to check out if your Ubuntu release is supported.
Playing videos with Ubuntu’s default Totem player? Well you may want to open movies directly in full-screen mode.
Totem doesn’t provide an option to open in full-screen, but it’s not hard to tweak this setting since Ubuntu Unity uses .desktop files to manage application launchers. All you need to do is change a parameter in totem.desktop file.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, copy and paste below command and hit enter:
sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/totem.desktop
Type in your user password when prompt (Terminal won’t display your password, just type in mind and hit enter to get pass).
You’ll see the totem.desktop opened with Gedit editor. What you need to do is add --fullscreen parameter to Exec value:
Save the file and now your movies will be opened directly in fullscreen mode with Totem player.
TimeShift is a Linux app that provides functionality similar to the System Restore feature in Windows and the Time Machine tool in Mac OS.
TimeShift takes incremental snapshots of the file system at regular intervals. These snapshots can be restored later to bring your system to the exact state it was in at the time when the snapshot was taken.
Snapshots are taken using rsync and hard-links. Common files are shared between snapshots which saves disk space. Each snapshot is a full system backup that can be browsed with a file manager.
TimeShift is designed to protect only system files and settings. User files such as documents, pictures and music are excluded. This ensures that your files remains unchanged when you restore your system to an earlier date.
TimeShift 1.3 was released recently with Ubuntu 12.04 build error fixed. The TimeShift PPA is ready for Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
To install the tool, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one:
